Data Management and Analytics Graduate Lab (DMAL) formally known as DISCO was officially opened in September 2012. It currently consists of 10 faculty members from the School of Computer Science and Engineering in NTU. The core research focus of DMAL is in the areas of data management, data analytics, information retrieval, and information privacy.

DMAL conducts research in data management and analytics that addresses the challenges of managing and analyzing massive volumes of data.

Researchers in DMAL

• conducts research in data management and analytics that addresses the challenges of managing and analyzing massive volumes of data.
• are devoted to inventing and innovating efficient and scalable techniques to manage and mine a variety of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data from fundamental theory to data-driven practical applications and going beyond papers to build academic prototypes to demonstrate their ideas.

Research areas include data management, data visualization, information retrieval, data mining, data privacy, and data-center management.